Skills

Setup Security Agent

Configure AWS Security Agent for the current workspace, provision or reuse an agent...

Install

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setup-security-agent -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Security
Updated
5d ago
License
Apache-2.0
Context cost
Mediumabout 2,665 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Configure AWS Security Agent for the current workspace, provision or reuse an agent space, IAM service role, and S3 bucket. Use when the user asks to "set up security agent", "configure security scanner", "is security agent configured", or on first-time use before any scan or pentest.

AWS Security Agent, Setup

This skill handles ONE thing: making sure the workspace has a working agent space, IAM service role, and S3 bucket linked together. Scans and pentests live in separate skills and assume this is done.


Local state convention

All Security Agent skills share workspace-local state at .security-agent/:

  • config.json, { "agent_space_id": "as-...", "region": "us-east-1", "code_reviews": { "<abs_path>": "cr-..." } }. Account ID, role ARN, and bucket name are derived by convention. The code_reviews map lets scans reuse the same CodeReview for a workspace.
  • scans.json, array of { scan_id, code_review_id, job_id, agent_space_id, scan_type, title, started_at, status, path } (keep last 50)
  • pentests.json, same shape, for pentest jobs
  • .gitignore, contents * so this directory stays untracked
  • findings-{scan_id}.md, written by the scan skill after each scan completes

This skill's job is to populate config.json and create .gitignore.

Derived values (convention over config)

Other skills compute these on each invocation rather than reading them from config.json:

ValueConvention
ACCOUNTaws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text
REGIONconfig.region (default us-east-1)
service_role_arnarn:aws:iam::${ACCOUNT}:role/SecurityAgentScanRole
s3_bucketsecurity-agent-scans-${ACCOUNT}-${REGION}

Why minimal config: the role name and bucket name are deterministic, so storing them adds drift risk (a user re-creating a role manually would silently use a stale path). Only agent_space_id is stored because users may have multiple agent spaces and we don't want to ask which one every session.


Workflow

  1. Check existing state: read .security-agent/config.json if it exists.
  2. Caller identity + region:
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